Matt Bowen

Oh that’s great news for all of us in MD! Congrats!

I was checking something on an MD gov website this week and was like “this feels so familiar and good. They’ve done a great job adapting USWDS to the state”

One weird trick to clear your social calendar.

It’s properly spelled See A Mess for a reason

I was gonna make one of those ampersand shirts that say

Bolton &
Kimmel &
Comey.

Just to feel sad.

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Much of the most engaging philosophy is by women too! Like Foote, Husthouse, Butler, Wallace, too many to list — if you want to engage with ethics, ontology, or epistemology and actually engage the current debates, you’re reading mostly women. So it’s not a genre thing.

Did it! You can thank @andymbowen.bsky.social for telling me about you all

If you’re moving to VA I’m not sure that’s realistic.

That is very cool, congratulations. I am fortunate to have met you when you were at UMD and am happy for you to reach more young people.

Oh goodness yes – it sells lies that strips men of even more of our humanity than patriarchy took as we were brought up. It harms literally everyone.

A Limenitis arthemis on a rock. Its wings are indigo with a tiny hint of red.

We also saw this cool red-spotted purple. It’s none of of those colors (maybe a tiny bit of red at the edge of a wing?) but it is stunning. #buttyflysky

The muddy creek falls shot from its pool. It is a tall waterfall with white water surrounded by deep green foliage

The tells me not to, but i still chase ‘em. Muddy Creek Waterfall on the Swallow Falls Canyon Trail. #StatePark #Maryland

And yes of course I have feelings about “the accessibility check” being like a single gate, but thanks to Jared and team we didn’t treat it that way — accessibility was core to how we developed continuously

At the IRS, the accessibility check was known to kill projects right before deployment. Thanks to Jared and a small team of dedicated practitioners, Direct File’s was chill and collegial. We are lucky to get to learn from such a dedicated and skilled practitioner.

A stone staircase with some moss leading up a trail through some trees

A cool stone staircase near on Swallow Falls Canyon Trail in #Maryland

Zip the cat, an orange tabby domestic short hair, in a desk attached circular cat bed. Zip is barely awake and has his paws curved in an adorable way.

This is Zip. He’s a little guy.

Fact check confirmed

My daughter (also six) is same! It’s what she wanted for her birthday too. It is both wonderful for the variety it brings is beyond pizza and expensive!

I had to use it when I was at USDS on a project and it was simply bonkers. So complicated for so little actual utility.

Isn’t there like a Go (the game) association up there too? It’s an amazing block

Taps the sign

This looks pretty cool.

Same vibes but sillier: The Arcade Fire opening for The Unicorns

After a couple months of LLM-assisted coding, I have a prediction: LLMs will impact productivity in a way similar to the change that came from moving from email to slack

In both the summer and winter I wonder why this place was even settled.

Hahaha I did that right away

So this is maybe the most most fascinating part, since it is a thoroughly tested, declarative, machine readable declaration of the logic of the portion of the tax code that DF supports github.com/IRS-Public/d...

This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

All over it